A Natural history of fishes
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- Publication date
- 1820
- Topics
- Fishes -- Pictorial works., Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- Alnwick -- 19th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Fishes, Chapbooks
- Publisher
- Alnwick : Printed and sold wholesale and retail by W. Davison
- Collection
- mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto
- Contributor
- McGill University Library
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 50.6M
36 p. : ill. ; 14 x 9 cm.
"Forty engravings on wood"--t.p
First sentence: "Of the whale, properly so called, there are no fewer than seven different kinds; all distinguished from each other by their external figure, or internal conformation."
Includes 40 woodcuts
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Bourke Collection: one of 3 titles bound together, in a set of 3 volumes. The above is from Volume III, bound in with A Natural history of reptiles, serpents, and insects and Day, a Pastoral in three parts; with binder's spine title: Fishes, Reptiles, Day, 1824. Numerous wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. 3/4 leather, marbled paper over boards
"Forty engravings on wood"--t.p
First sentence: "Of the whale, properly so called, there are no fewer than seven different kinds; all distinguished from each other by their external figure, or internal conformation."
Includes 40 woodcuts
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Bourke Collection: one of 3 titles bound together, in a set of 3 volumes. The above is from Volume III, bound in with A Natural history of reptiles, serpents, and insects and Day, a Pastoral in three parts; with binder's spine title: Fishes, Reptiles, Day, 1824. Numerous wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. 3/4 leather, marbled paper over boards
- Addeddate
- 2014-02-14 18:58:55
- Callnumber
- RBD BOUR PN970 D39 B49 1820 Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)
- Identifier
- McGillLibrary-PN970_D39_B49_1820_v_3_003529039-1911
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t2x37bv4p
- Note
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"Forty engravings on wood"--t.p.
First sentence: "Of the whale, properly so called, there are no fewer than seven different kinds; all distinguished from each other by their external figure, or internal conformation."
Includes 40 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Bourke Collection: one of 3 titles bound together, in a set of 3 volumes. The above is from Volume III, bound in with A Natural history of reptiles, serpents, and insects and Day, a Pastoral in three parts; with binder's spine title: Fishes, Reptiles, Day, 1824. Numerous wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. 3/4 leather, marbled paper over boards.
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
- Ocr_detected_lang
- en
- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_detected_script
- Latin
- Ocr_detected_script_conf
- 0.9670
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Ocr_parameters
- -l eng
- Page_number_confidence
- 19
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Ppi
- 300
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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